Which Application Testing is Right for Your Organization?

Millions of people worldwide bank, shop, buy airline tickets, and perform research using the World Wide Web.

Each transaction usually includes sharing private information such as names, addresses, phone numbers, credit card numbers, and passwords. They’re routinely transferred and stored in a variety of locations.

Billions of dollars and millions of personal identities are at stake every day. In the past, security professionals thought firewalls, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), patching, and privacy policies were enough to protect websites from hackers. Today, we know better.

Whatever your industry — you should have a consistent testing schedule completed by a security team. Scalable technology allows them to quickly and effectively identify your critical vulnerabilities and their root causes in nearly any type of system, application, device or implementation.

Application scanning can provide an excellent and affordable way for organizations to meet the requirements of due diligence; especially for secondary, internal, well-controlled or non-critical applications.

Application security assessments can identify security problems, catalog their exposures, measure risk, and develop mitigation strategies that strengthen your applications for your customers. This is a more complete solution than a scan since it goes deeper into the architecture.

Application penetration testing uses tools and scripts to mine your systems for data and examine underlying session management and cryptography. Risk assessments include all policies and processes associated with the specific application, and will be reviewed depending on the complexity of your organization.

In order to protect your organization against security breaches (which are only increasing in frequency), consider conducting an application scan, application assessment, application penetration test, or risk assessment on a regular basis.

If you need help deciding which choice is best for you, let us know. We’re here to help!

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